I have done this more then once. 2 of them were a pretty quick decision. With ODD we had a meeting at school (private Catholic) On a Wednesday. In the meeting they said we can not service him( Learning disability) and you have to the end of this month to find an alternate. I went to a school they suggested and set a meeting up for me the next morning. Which was not acceptable. Went right from their to the superintendents office to fill out paperwork, went from their to pick him up from school and he never went back. Second Ds the first time he was in school we let the teacher know we gave about a weeks notice. The second time we pulled him out we made a decision Monday mid morning. I filled out the paperwork and got approval and he didn't go back Tuesday. My third DS we had been talking to the teacher for a month about the possibility. When we finally made the decision I gave her 6-7 days notice. Of course she knew it was coming and was heavily persuading us to do it. All 3 times the teachers were great. I never had a problem with them and they all contacted me either before or after the withdrawal to encourage me. This was in 2 different states. My last one to be pulled from Public was this September. He was in Year round school and had started July 7. She emails me even know every few weeks offering me things she had in her class that she isn't using or books that were his that they are not going to use next year etc.. Last year when we pulled the middle school boy even though it was sudden and we had not given them notice 3 of his 6 teachers contacted me after offering me help. Even at the Catholic school the teachers were understanding of why we were doing it and not one of the many teachers we have had tried to talk us out of it.

We school year round. Taking 2 week and 2 4 week breaks a few times a year. The friday before Christmas will be our 110th day. We then will take a month off. The next 3 weeks we will light school. We had planned on being done and taking all of December off and going back Jan 3. But I thought about it and think the kids would prefer more time after Christmas to play with their new toys. So We have finished all the work I had wanted done before Our break so we have a few math review lessons or fun math a few days a week, We are doing a Christmas around the world unit study, watching some Christmas movies from other countries, Cooking and baking from around the world etc.. Then even on our Break we will find another unit study to do and more fun stuff. I will count less days as school then.(raking 20 days off maybe will count 8) When we go back MId January we will work for 9 weeks and take a 2 week break and then work till end of May and take June off. which will give us another 98 days. So our total will be 200-210 days. Of that we do plan 175 days of sit down book work and 30-35 days of field trips, fun stuff etc.. a year.

If we are doing any learning it is a school day. Even if it is just a hike if we are exploring what is around us. We don't have to count hours but need 9 months. We school year round I count pretty much every day as a school day. But most days we get at least math or Language Arts done with everything else. We do take a month off for Christmas but I still count most days because we are doing crafts, or cooking(using math etc) We don't do formal learning during that time(math workbook, LA etc) but we do watch a lot of educational shows and attend festivals etc..

Thanks. We started with Apples in October as a review. He was in public before so I wanted to give him something fun and different for awhile. Because we have only been doing a review up to this point I was not sure if it would be enough or to fast once we got to new material. Maybe I will have him do the intermediate series and something else for Fractions. And then go back to LOF fractions as a review.

Not sure what to do. I have a 5th grader his first year home. I started him in Apples in October and he is in Farming now. I expect him to be done with Goldfish by the end of January. Am I suppose to go to Fraction and Decimals and percents or the intermediate series?

I started with a 10 yr old that was in public school up to this year. I started him in Apples just as a review. He started in October and he is breezing through them doing one book a week. He is in Farming now. I think it was a good review for him. It helped him re learn to think but with simple problems.

My state requires 9 months of continious learning with reasonable holidays. We school year round and I have about 8 months of "work" the rest we use as field trips and extras.

With independent reading but not outside classes or activities it averages 4 hours a day. I have a very focused child. He reads 3 chapters of Life of Fred for math a day and then usually 10 minutes of Khan. That takes about 45 min Language Arts is about 30-45 minutes a day Science is about 30 minutes a day Social Studies is about 30 minutes a day 30 minutes a day alternating Latin/Technology/music/art Free reading(Usually historical, sometimes classical or choice is 30-60 and we usually watch some sort of Science or History show for 30-60 minutes

We school year round. 9 weeks on and 2-4 weeks off. We school July through Sept. Take 2 off, school till December 1 take the whole month off, School Jan through mid March take 2 weeks off, School April and May take June off.

I am going to second Lukeion. They are wonderful people. We have taken many classes with them and have always been pleased. I think their success rate on kids taken the national latin and greek exams and passing is 100%. They may be tough but they are teaching the class like a college class so that the kids are ready for college. The Barrs are homeschooling their 3 kids! They really helped me to make my decision to homeschool my kids.

My son prefers more of a block schedule so Monday 3 lessons of Language Arts, and 2 videos of Art History(Khan Academy) and 1 math lesson a Gets spelling words and does a pretest and 1 hour of reading . Takes about 4 hours Tuesday 1 chapter of Social Studies book, a hour of reading, 1 math lesson. Takes about 4 hours Wednesday 3-5 hours of Science(We use something that can't be broken into chapters or lessons really) 1 math lesson, 1 hour of reading. about a 5-7 hour day Thursday 1 math lesson, 1 health lesson, 1 technology lesson, 1 hour of reading, 1 latin lesson about 3 hours total Friday is field trip, catch up and writing assignments. We also explore extra interests that day. If something caught his eye in social studes we may dig deeper this day.

We use the kidshealth one. It is free. I have him listen to an audio online and then print the one or two activity pages for him to do and keep for the portfolio.

I use skedtrack and just put one subject a day and for how many hours So for Monday it says Math 3 hours. When I listed each lesson and put one day a week for however many months it will schedule several lessons a day

We use supercharged science. It is an online program. It has units and each unit has a video or two and some reading and TONS of experiments. You do have to gather the supplies but most are household supplies. I make a list once a month and hunt them down in the house or add them to my shopping list.

We are not starting 8th grade till after December so we are still working on it. Latin:Lukion Project History: will be workshops with Lukion Project as well as living books, exploring what interest him. Social Studies: we are new to our state so we will be studying our state Science: we will have 5 months left on our supercharged Science subscription so will finish that and then go on to probably Khan Academy Life Sciences. Math: he has already finished PreAlgebra so we may take a year "off" math and do review and maybe some consumer math. Grammar: probably use Grammalouges because we have it already. Literature and writing: is going to be book studies and writing projects Art: we will continue studying art history using Khan. Technology: continue with kidcoder and possible start Teencoder.